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Wine 7.6 Released With Updated Mono, More PE Conversion

Phoronix - Sat, 04/09/2022 - 06:20
Wine 7.6 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Arctic Sound M Support Added To Mesa 22.1 Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 04/09/2022 - 02:42
Ahead of next week's expected feature freeze / code branching for Mesa 22.1, Intel today committed Arctic Sound M "ATS-M" support for their open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

AMD SEV-SNP Appears Ready For Upstreaming In Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Sat, 04/09/2022 - 02:15
Introduced last year with the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors was SEV-SNP as the latest iteration of their Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology. SEV-SNP adds additional integrity protections and safeguards as part of this "Secure Nested Paging" extension of SEV. Finally with Linux 5.19 the SEV-SNP support should premiere in the mainline kernel...

New NVIDIA Open-Source Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Appears

Phoronix - Fri, 04/08/2022 - 21:35
Appearing with NVIDIA's latest Linux4Tegra code drop is a new open-source kernel graphics driver not previously published. This driver isn't based on the existing Nouveau driver but rather appears to be derived from their internal driver code-base with some copyright references going back to 90's...

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 "Ice Lake" Linux Performance One Year After Launch

Phoronix - Fri, 04/08/2022 - 19:34
This week marks one year since Intel formally introduced their Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" processors led by the flagship Xeon Platinum 8380. Given the occasion, here are benchmarks looking at the Linux performance at-launch across CentOS, Clear Linux, and Ubuntu and then again against those latest Linux distributions in their current state now for seeing how the Linux performance has evolved over the past year.

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